Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Iraq and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Guru Guru to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Mars. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Barrington Levy,
Scientists,
Hardrive,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Smiths,
John Cale,
Kenny Larkin,
Susan Cadogan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
New Age Steppers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fugazi,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funkadelic,
the Slits,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Youth Brigade,
The Cramps,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Section 25,
DJ Style,
EPMD,
Black Bananas,
Amazonics,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Donald Byrd,
Lindisfarne,
The Music Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Fatback Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Drive Like Jehu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rekid,
Pierre Henry,
Agent Orange,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Interpol,
Maurizio,
Drexciya,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mark Hollis,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
David McCallum,
Stockholm Monsters,
Letta Mbulu,
Junior Murvin,
Bill Near,
Wally Richardson,
Pylon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arcadia,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
The Invisible,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.